craigdoepie
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Nobody happy in here anymore, you guys won. And Jones scored on top of it. At least 1 midfield player is scoring and doing his job 
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Michael Carrick... few know what he does but many concur that he's the best at it :erm:
Lol. What an idiot post from that person. Dembele is a defensive mid? Lucas is fast? That nonsense also highlights that most of the others play at the base of a 4-2-3-1 with a partner in midfield, which Carrick either doesn't have, or has lightweights a la Anderson, Cleverly, Giggs etc. No wonder we flourished with Carrick and Scholes there. Who do we have now?
As for him being a bad tackler :erm: What utter BS.
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To round off that idiotic post, let's compare Squawka's rankings for defensive mids (actual defensive mids) mentioned:
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What nonsense. And if you believe things like that post you obviiously have no idea about the game of football.
Right....lol
Manchester United's win percentage, last 3 seasons
With Carrick - 72%
Without Carrick - 46%
Anderson over this season and the last 2 = 71% games won
Thats the stats
http://www.soccerbase.com/players/player.sd?player_id=46565![]()
My word the delusion is strong in this one...
Bugger all to say about this post then. Guess you don't deal well with fact![]()
http://www.soccerbase.com/players/player.sd?player_id=46565
Go count the games Anderson featured in and we won
How many 90min games has Anderson actually played?
http://www.soccerbase.com/players/player.sd?player_id=46565
Go count the games Anderson featured in and we won
Yes we know...Carrick needs a World class partner or partners to look good
Thats the point - if you wanna dissect stats then you have to ask what did Carrick actually do in thise games when we had all those other players. Spouting stats and seeing what he does is different
http://www.soccerbase.com/players/player.sd?player_id=46565
Go count the games Anderson featured in and we won
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Swansea 1 - 4 Man Utd
Comes on at 86", it's 3-0.. Well done Ando! You're the reason we won!
Man Utd 2 - 0 C Palace
Comes off at 62: for Fellaini, we win at 81". Well done Ando!
Man Utd 1 - 2 West Brom
Comes off at 68". We lost at 67". Well done Ando!
Man Utd 4 - 0 Norwich
Comes on at 89". Well done Ando!! It's all you baby!
Leverkusen 0 - 5 Man Utd
Comes on at 80", it's 4-0, he's definitely why we won!
Man Utd 0 - 1 Newcastle
Comes on at 69". Does nothing.
Michael Carrick... few know what he does but many concur that he's the best at it :erm:
Carrick is not the English Pirlo. He’s just not. He lacks both the charisma and talent. And you really can believe it’s not Scholes.
But he is a very good midfielder who makes doing most things well look easy. What he needs more than anything is the kind of midfield companion who will steal the spotlight from him.